Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-04
SABINE PASS.
Wis., 'ha Unit d NiGies Erg;reer in
Charge OF tho T@7k an ;:.3 Pas
says II His Report.
Prac;tcai3y 20 UomInorco al the Psss for
the Past Year-ROw Jettiss Must Do
Eu!lt to Securs Deep Water.
Special TO TIE Gaz3tte.

-tieCl1. u k+jS JdESl.e
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The report Of
Ms II II3uer, United States engineer in
charge Of the work on Sabine Pass, on
the Improvements made there Outing the
past fiscal year gives some interesting
information never hitherto published
After referring TO the tidal wave OF Ooto-
Der, 1856, which swept the town OF Sabine
Pass, Major Hsuer says;
"The work on the new cor
tract was resumed January, 1857,
most OF the work being con-
fined to rhe east lefty, and TO the building
CT this lefty up to high water lnark
throughout It's length. During the LAST
| fiscal year the toupdation Of the east lefty
! has been extended Until its outer ENG is
! II ,01O feet from shore. This lefty, except
! here and there where Il little rock is yet
/ to be thrown on 10 raise il to It's full
| height, is completed up to the level of
/ mean high tide for a distance OF Il, 3I2
! feet from shore end. About 81, 900
linear feet OF this jetty h@s been increased
| from two 10 FIVE feet in height to replace
damage By StOlms and compression due II
weight Of rock sud ac!iOn Of the sea. 1t
was noticed that numerous pl8c s in
both jetties that had been built up to the
mean high tide level in previous years
bad settled. Whether this was due TO 8
bad subsistence OF the jstties or con-
preston of the brush, to washing aRay
of the rocks, to the effects OF tends,
or either OF these several causes COM
bined, was not known. In May, 1887, s
careful examination by divers w&s
made st several different points,
Sol TyA+I
which had been longest built.
An examination mSde by Mr.. Raymond
showed that the foundation course Of
the west jetty was intact for distance
Of 1000 feet from the shore end. On this
foundation course g second tier OF mats
GAS feet long and twenty feet wide was
built II 1888. OF the third tier, built in
! IsS5, which was $1,000 feet long and
Yftteen feet wide, 5000 feet remains,
u the rest being broken up by storms.
During the past year iron screws were
used for COMPRISING and the result was
that the four foot thickness of brush was
squeezed down, and the mattress four feet
in height was built up. There has been
practically nc commerce st Sabine Pass
for the last year. The large vessels which
came there brought TIE rock from
New York for building the jetties,
and few little schOolers passed in
j snd cut carrying sI1all goods to ard from
Beaumont and Orange, Tex, No railroad
trains have run 10 or from the pass since
the storm Of last October. About one
months more work On the jetties will
complete the present contract. About
$3.50, 900 worth CT work will then have
been done in little less than eight
mon4, on one j6;ty. Twice the amount
OF WGk could have heen done on this
iasS and the same amount on the other
,f1ssy, mad the funds been available. { The
hes results in toe way of obtaining deep
kwater by jettiss, can only be obtaihad by
Slunususly rARid work on taem. !Isrge
4 appropristiahs ean only ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS